DIY Pastry Cloth with HTV
I always use a pastry cloth when I roll out a pie crust. I am amazed how many people don’t use one, because I end up with a mess if I try to make a crust without my trusty cloth. The cloth I have been using for years is starting to look pretty bad, and although it is still functional, I decided it would be nice to make myself a fresh one.
Time for a new Pastry Cloth
Materials:
- 100 percent cotton “utility” fabric
- Rick-Rack (optional)
- Sewing machine
- ThermoFlex Plus
- Red Capped Blade
- MTC
- Iron or Heat Press
Settings for KNK Zing:
- Force – 16
- Speed – 10
- MultiCut – 1
Steps:
- Wash and dry fabric.
- Cut or tear fabric to size (20″ X 20″ works well)
- Finish edge by serging or hemming. I wanted a hemmed edge and followed these instructions to make mitered corners. Add rick-rack if desired.
- Import design into MTC.
- Mirror Design
- Cut HTV and weed
- Center on fabric, vinyl side down.
- To help with centering, fold fabric in half and crease with iron or heat press. Repeat by folding the other direction, so that you have two crossed creases to give you guides for centering.
- For the outer circles in my design, I also folded the HTV and put creases in the transfer sheet. I then lined up the 4 creases in the transfer sheet with the 4 creases in the fabric to insure the large circles were centered.
- I measured the distance between the two circles to make sure they were spaced evenly, and used pieces of masking tape to hold in place so that it did not move when I placed in my heat press.
Crease, Measure, Tape
- Use iron or heat press to adhere HTV to fabric, according to manufacturer’s instructions.
I researched to see if I could find any information on whether or not the HTV is food safe. I found nothing to indicate that it was not, but am not sure. My guess is that it is as safe as many plastics used with food. However, I may use the back side of the cloth just to be on the safe side.
DIY Pastry Cloth with Matching Dropcloth Towel
Well, that turned out awesome! I am amazed at the different things people think of making.
Thank you, Nancy. It was fun to make something for me…. and something useful.
Great project, now I am going to have to look into having one of these =) Thanks, Laurie!
Thank you, Liz. I think I may have to make a few more. They get so cruddy looking and I think they are a must for rolling out pie crust.
Another great idea! Can masking tape go into the heat press without causing a problem or residue?
The masking tape didn’t seem to be a problem. On most projects I would probably use transfer tape. But, I was just doing this for myself and figured it would be okay on this heavy cotton. Like I said, transfer tape is probably the better choice, though.